They met in their senior year of high school, and parted in that same year.
He Qingkong x Yu Wanli
She was a girl with an illness. When she stepped into Class F, she met a boy.
He sat in the last row, slumped over his desk. Sunlight poured in and fell across his face. He raised his head slightly, his expression wild and unruly.
He said, "Your name is He Qingkong? Then you must be a really cheerful girl!"
She replied, "I hope so."
But behind his carefree, rebellious facade was a tragedy he could never bring himself to talk about.
When they were children
At the corner of Yingchuan Street, a gang of hooligans with dyed yellow and green hair surrounded him.
"Big brother, he's the bastard who has a mother but no one to raise him. He snitched to the kindergarten teacher," said a boy about 1.3 meters tall, pointing at Yu Wanli.
"That's not true!"
"How is it not? Your mom doesn't even want you anymore. Didn't your rich dad say so when he came to pick you up last time? He said your mom left early. I bet she just didn't want you!"
"Bullshit!"
His few curses enraged the hooligans, and they beat him for half an hour. But he was only a little kid in kindergarten. Heavy slaps rained down on his face, and all the books in his backpack were shaken out, including the cash his father had stuffed in there before school. The hooligans took it all. Then a girl arrived, holding a flashlight, with a security guard following behind her.
He remembered that the girl was called Xiaoyun. That was what her father called her. It was the last thing he saw before closing his eyes.
Afterward, he learned martial arts. In high school, he took to fighting, and since his father was the school's biggest shareholder and his grades weren't near the bottom, the teachers stopped trying to rein him in.
He made a name for himself by taking on Zhiyuan High's number-one bully in a one-on-one fight, becoming one of the school's most talked-about students. All the girls who admired him went wild over him.
And perhaps the only person who would ever make his heart race was that girl.
He would take on bullies from other schools for her.
She would make him teddy bear cookies herself and cheer him on when he played basketball.
Once they learned about each other's hardships, they became the most important people in each other's lives.
That year, a heavy snow fell. He watched it with her. As their high school days neared their end, she lay in a hospital bed while he knelt beside her, clutching her hand and pleading softly, "Please watch one last snowfall with me, okay? I'm begging you.
"Look, it's snowing again. It's heavier than usual. Can you open your eyes? I'll watch the snow with you!"
Theme: She was one in a very small chance, and he met her when the odds were just as slim.
